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Inherited Poverty

Of all the human tragedies embodied in welfare statistics, the saddest is the steady rise--through the longest period of prosperity in America's history--in the number of children growing up on relief, most of them in families without fathers. In New York City alone the number receiving public aid to dependent children has gone up by one-third in the last two years, from 235,716 to 314,512--more than the whole population of Omaha or Akron.

October 11, 1966

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